The digitalization of family life: A multilevel conceptual framework

IF 2.7 1区 社会学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES Journal of Marriage and Family Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI:10.1111/jomf.12983
Yue Qian, Yang Hu
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The internet and digital technologies have penetrated all domains of people's lives, and family life is no exception. Despite being a characterizing feature of contemporary family change, the digitalization of family life has yet to be systematically theorized. Against this backdrop, this article develops a multilevel conceptual framework for understanding the digitalization of family life and illustrates the framework by synthesizing state-of-the-art research from multiple disciplines across global contexts. At a micro level, as individuals “do” family online, digitalization influences diverse aspects of family practices, including family formation, functioning, and contact. How individuals “do” family online is not free-floating but embedded in macro-level economic, sociocultural, and political systems underpinning processes of digitalization. Bridging the micro–macro divide, family-focused online communities serve as a pivotal intermediary at the meso level, where people display family life to, and exchange family-related support with, mostly nonfamily members. Meso-level online communities are key sites for forming and diffusing collective identities and shared family norms. Bringing together the three levels, the framework also considers cross-level interrelations to develop a holistic digital ecology of family life. The article concludes by discussing the contributions of the framework to understanding family change and advancing family scholarship in the digital age.

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家庭生活数字化:多层次概念框架
互联网和数字技术已经渗透到人们生活的各个领域,家庭生活也不例外。尽管家庭生活数字化是当代家庭变化的一个特征,但人们尚未对其进行系统的理论研究。在此背景下,本文为理解家庭生活数字化提出了一个多层次的概念框架,并通过综合全球范围内多个学科的最新研究成果对该框架进行了说明。在微观层面,随着个人在网上 "经营 "家庭,数字化影响着家庭实践的各个方面,包括家庭的组建、运作和联系。个人如何在网上 "经营 "家庭并不是自由浮动的,而是嵌入了支撑数字化进程的宏观经济、社会文化和政治体系之中。在弥合微观-宏观鸿沟的过程中,以家庭为中心的网络社区在中观层面起到了关键的中介作用,人们在这里向大多数非家庭成员展示家庭生活,并与他们交换与家庭相关的支持。中观层面的网络社区是形成和传播集体身份和共同家庭规范的关键场所。该框架将三个层面结合在一起,还考虑了跨层面的相互关系,从而发展出一种整体的家庭生活数字生态学。文章最后讨论了该框架对理解家庭变化和推动数字时代家庭学术研究的贡献。
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期刊介绍: For more than 70 years, Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF) has been a leading research journal in the family field. JMF features original research and theory, research interpretation and reviews, and critical discussion concerning all aspects of marriage, other forms of close relationships, and families.In 2009, an institutional subscription to Journal of Marriage and Family includes a subscription to Family Relations and Journal of Family Theory & Review.
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